MBB Core Network

Evolution Leo Ma

2

Business Drivers of Future Mobile Core

Business

Drivers

Voice + SMS Mobile Internet Multimedia

1990 2000 2010 2020

5G 2G 3G 4G

Enhanced Mobile

Broadband

Massive Machine Type Communications

Ultra-reliable and Low-latency

Communications

4K Video

VR/AR

Remote control

Auto Driving Smart City

Voice Smart

Home/Building

People

Things

3

2 Steps to Target Architecture

2016-2018 2018+

Phase I : Single Phase II: Cloudifaction Phase III: Cloud Native

A

P

P

Virtualized Infrastructure

2G

Virtualized Infrastructure

A

P

P

A

P

P

A

P

P

A

P

P

• VNFs with layered architecture

& CUPS for MEC scenarios

• Core Network Slicing for NB-

IOT, MEC, MVNO and etc

• Different Virtual instances for

vertical segments and MBB

3G 4G

Slicing Slicing Slicing

Network Function

Deployment

1

2

Business Case 3

• Decomposed VNFs with full

CP/UP separation

• Service Oriented E2E Network

Slicing

• More customer segments

• Protocol driven monolithic

PNFs

• Hierarchical and static

network deployment

• One instance for multiple use

cases

4

Migration PNFs towards Cloudification Architecture

Cloudification Architecture

DC

Service Processing Unit

Load Balancer

Session Database layer

Separated interface layer

from service layer internal

Separated service state

from service process unit

Service BUS

Stateless Design + Session LB

DC

• Graceful Scalability

• N-Way Redundancy

Journey towards Cloudification

2011: Feasibility Study

2014: Joint Demo in MWC

2016:Industry recognition &

vendor follow up…

2015: Commercial Deployment in

EU/China

• Better resource utilization

2013: Development/PoC

“Highly Respect on Huawei’s courage on

re-architecture the distributed DB , which is

the only big vendor choose to do “ • Common Architecture of

Huawei VNFs

(control/dataplane)

Network Function

Network Deployment

Business Case

5

Reconstruct C/U Plane to Simplify the Architecture

HSS ANDSF PCRF MME

GW-C

GW-U

Control

Plane

Gi-LAN Cache

DPI

Video opt.

TCP opt.

URL filter Firewall

DHCP AAA

GW

Current Network SOC (Service Oriented Core)

Control Plane

Reconstruct

Decouple control

and user plane

(Service Processing

Function)

SOC-C (Converged Control

Function)

SOC-U

Programmable User Plane

Unique Control Plane

User Plane

Reconstruct

Leading Standard

Position

Leading Progress

with Tier-1 OPs

Leading Roadmap

for Network

Evolution

Network Function

Network Deployment

Business Case

6

SOC-UP

TCP

Acceleration QOS Charging ….

mLAN

switch

Programmable Framework

Protocol Stack

Traffic

Steering GTP..

No

GTP PMIP

Scheduler

uMTC U-MBB ULL

SOC-CP

Context

Subscriber

Configuration

Security PDN

Conn.

Policy

Mgmt.

Access

Control

User Data

Mgmt.

Process

Controller MM SM LCS

Ex

tern

al In

terfa

ce

Fu

nc

tion

Data

Service

Service Components

Process Services

Composable Control Functions

Decomposed CP/UP for Service Diversity & Fast TTM

•Modularize Network Function to decompose the control plane and user plane

•Plug & Play (PnP): each module can be replaced/modified/added individually

•On-demand module assembling to meet different requirements

Network Function

Network Deployment

Business Case

7

CUPS Standard Progress & Roadmap

Standard Progress

Joint Innovation

Roadmap

2015.9 CUPS SI Start 2016.5 CUPS WI Transfer

2016.9 CUPS SA2 Freeze

2017.3 CUPS stage3 Freeze

•CUPS(S2-152709 ) is put forward in 3GPP in July 2015 and Huawei is the only Work item Rapporteur.

Up to 2016Q1, 40% of SI task has been finished.

April, 2016 2016Q2 2016Q3

MCDN Trial

Start

MCDN Trial

Complete

Commercial

launch

CUPS based MCDN solution trial with Tier-1 Operator in China.

MCDN

Sep, 2016

CUPS

Oct, 2016

(trial)

2017Q2

(Commercial)

Modular CP* & Programmed UP*

2018~

Oct.2013

Research

Start

Feb.2016

Joint Demo With

Operator V in MWC

Network Function

Network Deployment

Business Case

8

Critical Connectivity 1~5ms latency

eMBB AR/BR 1~10Gbps

NB-IOT 100M connections

SOC- UP SOC- CP

SOC- CP SOC-UP

SOC- UP

Edge DC Local DC Regional DC

Voice High reliability SOC- UP SOC- CP

IMS

SOC- CP

AR/VR

Decomposed Function Library

Dynamic Network Slices Deployment

Car APP

Network Function

Network Deployment

Business Case

9

E2E Network Slicing Auto Management

Network Function

Network Deployment

Business Case

Service Model Online Planning for

Service to Network

Definition

Business Model

Service Input

Resource Model Auto Configuring for

Network to Resource

Deployment

Mission Critical Mobile Broadband Massive CIoT

Local DC Local DC

(FE) Regional DC

(BE)

CloudBB

in CO

Backhaul Backbone

NFVO(Virtual Resource Deploy) NG EMS(NE Data Configure)

vNE vNE

Service Order

Network Slicing Deployment

Slice 3

UP

CP CDN DRAN

CRAN APP

Request Mapping Topology Generation

Mobility Session

Access ……

CO LDC RDC

charging QOS

Slice 2

UP

CP CDN DRAN

CRAN APP

Slice 1

UP

CP CDN DRAN

CRAN APP

Function & Feature

Component Selection

Service

Request

Network

Request

Workflow Definition NFVO OSS SOC SOR

SONAC

10

From Mass Market to Many Customer Segments

North

America

Europe

Middle

East

East Asia

South Pacific

Russia

China

50+ Commercial Contracts

50+ PoCs & Trials

Leading Position NFV Standardization/Open Source

Mobile Broadband

50%

10%

Mobile Enterprise

20% M2M/NB IoT

20% Gi-LAN

Network Function

Network Deployment

Business Case

11

0

200000

400000

600000

800000

1000000

1200000

1400000

CloudUGW1

CloudUGW2

Asian Operator A: Large Scale Mass Market Deployment

Network Function

Network Deployment

Business Case

Feb 2016

PO

Aug 2016

Ph1 Cutover

June 2016

Ph2 Cutover

2M PDP/46G 4M PDP/49G

Reference

site

2M PDP in live network

High Reliability & High Elasticity Based on Cloudification Architecture

June 19 May 30 May 19

Projetc scope of Huawei:

• 8.8 M subs, 6M PDP & 95 Gbps

• Migration starting from May 2016

SULAWESI

2 CloudUSN

3 CloudUSN

2 CloudUGW

1 CloudUSN

2 CloudUSN

1 CloudCG

1 CloudUSN

1 CloudCG

2 CloudUGW

MEDAN

PALEMBANG

JAMBI

2 CloudUSN

1 CloudCG

PEKANBARU KALIMANTAN

DENPARSAR EAST JAVA

Quick delivery / deployment for high traffic EPC network

12

Gi LAN Consolidation in EU Operator

MANO

Service Switch

Service

Chain

Controller

Traffic

Classifier

SFC

Proxy

SFC

Proxy

SFC

Proxy

PCRF Restful

Gx

MAC IP UDP NSH …

Service Chain ID

NSH: Network Service Header

Define Service Chain

Selection Policy Control Reference from 23.203

Define Service Chain

Forwarding Mechanism Reference from IETF RFC7665

Service Function Chaining Workgroup

Flexible Mobile Service Steering Group

Standard Status : Already formally approved

Standard Status : Parameters still under discussion,

frozen in Aug.2016

Embedded Traffic Classifier & Flexible Traffic

Steering

Network Function

Network Deployment

Business Case

13

Overlay NB-IoT Core for TTM & Agile Deployment

12/2015 10/2015

Start Field

Trial

Completion of

Phase1 field trial

Smart Metering Application

CIoT UE (Iceni chip)

CIoT RAN

vUSN vUGW U2000/

VNFM

NB-IoT Core

Cloud Infrastructure

• Power Saving

Optimization

• Device Authentication

• NAS Optimization

Status

• World’s First NB-IoT Field Deployment

• E2E Pre-Standardization Solution

• Exploration Guiding NB-IoT Industry

Benefit from NFV Solution

• Low entry cost for NB-IOT trial

• Quick deployment

• Easy maintenance

vs.

6~9

months 2~3

months vs.

vs.

09/2016

3GPP

R14

12/2016

Commercial

Network Function

Network Deployment

Business Case

14

Key Takeaways:

• Single -> Cloudification-> Service Oriented

Network

Function •Cloudification with layered architecture

•Decomposition/Composition in C/U plane

•Static deployment -> Flexible and service oriented placement

Business

Case •Diverse Business from Mass Market and vertical segments

Network

Deployment

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